Artist:  Taj Mahal

Title: Brothers

Date:  1977

Label:  Warner Bros. Records   BS 3024

Notes:  Taj produced, wrote and arranged this soundtrack from the late 70's film. It has a strong Caribbean feel to the percussion and Taj's voice is strong and fluid as ever. The synopsis from the cover is as follows: "He was nobody, a black man in a white man's prison. She was somebody; a notorious, beautiful radical, black professor. Their love story caused a national convulsion. This film is that story. And it happened." I've never seen the flick myself, but I love the record. Nice simple cover graphics are well chosen.

Line Up:

Taj Mahal: guitar, electric piano, piano, vocals

Rudy Costa: bass clarinet, flute, alto flute, alto sax, soprano sax, kalimba, shekere

Ray Fitzpatrick: bass

Kester Smith: trap drums

Larry McDonald: congas, percussion

Kwasi Dzidzornu: congas, percussion

Robert Greenidge: steel drums